Can you imagine how students will love to become a witch for some moments? We all know that students like Halloween! So every educator has one or two activities in the classroom about Halloween.

It's already Halloween in some countries, already live in Australia (and now everywhere) a new doodle for the holiday, which lets users become a witch and create a witch's brew.Education: Resources:

History:

Credits: National Geographic

Halloween is also called All Hallows' Eve. As it falls on the eve of All Saints' Day, it has a religious significance for some Christians otherwise it is nowadays observed largely as a secular celebration.

Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31 in a number of countries around the world. And like last years, Google is celebrating the event with an interactive doodle.

Doodle:We all know that students like Halloween! So every educator has prepared one or two activities to Halloween's lesson. And this Google Doodle is a superb digital resource!

The Halloween Doodle features a witch flipping through the pages of a book which seems to include information about witchcraft.

As students press the play button, the witch appears and starts practicing witchery. In this Doodle, there are four different items, including an apple, bone, bottle and skull, available to the witch for performing witchery. The witch needs two items to do witchery and cast an evil spell. She lets you choose those items and produce spooky results. To add to the atmosphere there is also an eerie sound playing in the background.

Students can combine various ingredients to play mini games, from whack-a-mole with the undead, to a shell game where your goal is to find a mummy in a coffin. There are several others, which can be found with experimentation. Let students discover it. Young people are very intuitive about technology and games.

That's about all you can do with this one, so if you're looking for an ending, it's a bit of a cliff-hanger.

An opportunity to draw attention to our girls students. Girls are growing up faster and need to be aware that it is out there and early detection is the best cure and hope of getting through this awful thing.

But let remind you the leading cause of death for children under the age of 15:

In developing countries, over 100,000 children die each year due to poor diagnoses and lack of access to basic treatment options. If given the generic drugs and simple medical procedures so desperately needed it is estimated that more than half of them could be saved. Instead, survival rates stand at 20 percent.

Unfortunally, as educators, we all have known some children and young people who have or had cancer or often coexist with cancer because they have brothers or sisters, sometimes mothers or grandmothers suffering with this disease.

Host a pink walkathon at the Park of your city from 8am to 10am or from 1pm to 15pm;

Wear Pink

To aid efforts, in Arts curriculum students can designed T-shirts for the cause, ribbons, badges;

Buy Pink ribbon

Students are asked to buy pink ribbon bows and wear them to show their solidarity in school, on the street, at home;

Sport for Pink

Create sport activities for boys and girls in gymnasium or playground with a score;

Protect your Mom

Students will be titled PYM brand ambassadors who will educate their mothers, grandmothers, and other family to take self exams;

Pink Bazaar

Set up a charity bazaar in the school for a week and ask for parents and grandparents help;

Collect scarves

Teachers and parents will be collecting scarves to be sent to patients who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy.

The scarves will be sent to Breast Cancerorganization of your own city or country that will forward it to girls and women patients.

Write Pink

Ask students to write kind pink cards or letters and send them to older older Cancer patients;

Pink Facebook | Twitter

Create a school/classroom Facebook account or Twitter account to exchange messages with children and young people who are in hospitals but stay active interacting with social media;

Pink Contests

Host contests and ask students to send in their dance, song or other art forms that will help create awareness about Cancer to a school email until 15 November. There will be Prizes for the best "Bits of Positivity".

Friday, October 25, 2013

It's not the first time I write about MOOCs. MOOCs (Massive open online courses) provide online access for all.

On the first post MOOCs in a simple way I introduced the 'a-ha' in Higher Educationand completed with a video published in The New York Times

MOOCs are offered not only from universities using their own or a shared platform, but also from nonprofit organizations, trade associations or single businesses or even from an individual using free online course builder tools to create their own MOOC.

Here two infographics that show the impact of coursera in Europe and all around the world.

just to help you visualize this potential by compiling the existing European MOOCs and all around the world MOOCs at the moment:

Impressive, isn't it? In just two years (this started in 2011) Coursera has grown "from a revolutionary idea to thriving community of more than 100 partners institutions, 5 million+ students from 190 countries, and 500+ courses across a diverse range of disciplines"?

So many countries, languages, and educational backgrounds represented! This is an important movement promoting lifelong education for everyone from every corner of the globe.

“Since we started theLet’s Move! initiative, I’ve been looking for as many ways as possible to help families and kids lead healthier lives. And I’ve come to realize that if we were going to take just one step to make ourselves and our families healthier, probably the single best thing we could do is to simply drink more water. It’s as simple as that. Drink more water,”

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Souto, G. (2013) Time for Action: New Challenges in Secondary Education. At Conference Proceedings, International Conference The Future of Education, Florence, Italy.

Souto, G. (2013) Visionary Learning for 2030: Secondary Education. In Booklet online "Vision on Open Education 2030 Part 2: School Education", European Commission and The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).

TEDxKids Brussels 2011

Gina Souto was guest tweeting from TEDxKids in Brussels on June 1st."48 kids, all of them born in 2000, are going get their hands dirty, soldering, tinkering, hacking and composing. A series of hands-on workshops will introduce the kids to a range of skills and methods.

At the same time 400 adults will be treated to an all day program of leading thinkers, experts and makers."

The twitter address is @TEDxKidsEU and there was a fantastic live stream from the event.